How to Use braincase in a Sentence

braincase

noun

• Xuchang 2, while not as large, appears to have had a modern size braincase as well.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2017
• What makes the skull so fascinating to researchers is its braincase.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2019
• The braincase also revealed the shortest ever cochlea found in a dinosaur.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• For example, the braincase is large, suggesting a big brain similar in size to our own.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2019
• The braincases on these animals were not terribly large, though.
  — Michael B. Habib, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2019
• The results suggest that Denisovans should have features such as a low braincase, a wide pelvis and large joint surfaces and ribcage.
  — Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2019
• In all, the researchers found the braincase, several vertebrae, teeth, claws and part of a jaw, which was enough to identify the find as a new species.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2016
• The Bexhill brain, however, was well-preserved enough to see that part of the tissue was directly against the braincase.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• While the brain tissue of a dinosaur was too fragile to preserve, the structure of its braincase can reveal aspects of a dinosaur's lifestyle.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• The scanning focused upon Little Foot’s cranial vault - the upper part of her braincase — and her lower jaw, or mandible.
  — NBC News, 2 Mar. 2021
• Believed to belong to a male, Skull 5 also has the smallest braincase of the five individuals.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 10 June 2016
• This could mean that the dinosaur's brain filled its braincase, which in turn could mean that the dinosaur — and perhaps other cows of the Cretaceous — was smarter than a box of rocks.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2016
• In the lab, the researchers imaged the braincase—still embedded in rock—with a micro-CT scanner, which beamed x-rays at the fossil in thin slices.
  — Bytess Joosse, science.org, 27 Sep. 2022
• Rarely preserved in ichthyosaurs, the braincase allows for scientists to better understand how the animals functioned.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Jan. 2019
• The oral cavity became more compact, the jaw receded relative to the braincase and the angle between the oral cavity and the skull base became more acute.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
• In particular, the inner ear and braincase anatomy of lagerpetids hinted at adaptations that have been linked to the pterosaurs’ development of flight.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2020
• The fossil shows a creature with a projecting face, large canine teeth, flaring cheekbones, a crest atop its head that anchored strong jaw muscles, and a long, narrow braincase that held a brain the size of a chimpanzee’s.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2019
• The birds’ distinctive drumming and drilling had led researchers to hypothesize that the bone between woodpeckers’ beak and braincase must absorb shocks to protect their brain from concussions.
  — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 14 July 2022
• More than 3 million years ago, the braincase of Australopithecus afarensis, likely the first fully bipedal hominin, was only slightly larger than a chimpanzee’s.
  — Kenneth Miller, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2020
• However, while Yunxian 2’s large, squat braincase did resemble that of Homo erectus, other features of the skull, such as flat and shallow cheekbones, did not.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025
• The protruding balconies are eyes, above which looms an oversize braincase of office space intended for Communist Party functionaries who would guide the economy.
  — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2021
• Researchers found that over winter the braincases of the animals shrunk by an average of 15 percent in anticipation of winter, then rebounded almost, but not quite, to its former size in spring.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 25 Oct. 2017
• Given the Jebel Irhoud fossils’ modern faces and primitive braincases, Hublin and his team suggest that the features associated with modern humans probably didn’t evolve all at once.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2017
• Next, the team wants to use digital reconstruction methods to correct deformation on other parts of the skull, such as the braincase, to reveal insights about the brain size of Little Foot — and potentially unlock clues about the cognitive abilities of our early human ancestors.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026